One of the first special reports I wrote for 451 Group was an
analysis of the open source systems management
vendors on the scene — GroundWork, Hyperic, Zenoss, OpenNMS
Group, Nagios Enterprises and some others. These named ones are
those that made it and while there was some reckoning in the market and there have been
changes, it is interesting to see these players still plugging
away, pushing into new markets and powering open source for
systems, network and application monitoring and management,
including cloud computing environments.

When acquired by SpringSource a year ago, there was some question
as to the real value of open source systems monitoring and
management company Hyperic, which had taken the …

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